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US-12008324

Action selection based on environment observations and textual instructions

PublishedJune 11, 2024
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Technical Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a system includes a language encoder model that is configured to receive a text string in a particular natural language, and process the text string to generate a text embedding of the text string. The system includes an observation encoder neural network that is configured to receive an observation characterizing a state of the environment, and process the observation to generate an observation embedding of the observation. The system includes a subsystem that is configured to obtain a current text embedding of a current text string and a current observation embedding of a current observation. The subsystem is configured to select an action to be performed by the agent in response to the current observation.

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5. The method of claim 3, wherein the language encoder model is a recurrent neural network.

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6. The method of claim 3, wherein the language encoder model is a bag-of-words encoder.

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7. The method of claim 3, wherein the current observation embedding is a feature matrix of the current observation, and wherein the current text embedding is a feature vector of the current text string.

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9. The method of claim 1, wherein at each of the plurality of time steps, the current text string is a natural language instruction for the agent for performing the current task.

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13. The method of claim 1, wherein the current text string is the same for each observation received during the performance of the current task.

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14. The method of claim 1, wherein the current text string is different from a preceding text string received during the performance of the current task.

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20. The non-transitory computer storage media of claim 18, wherein the language encoder model is a recurrent neural network.

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Filing Date

May 16, 2022

Publication Date

June 11, 2024

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